Portable stove.



UNITED STAT-ns CASPAR. W. METTLR, OF HARTFORD, AND FREDERICKC. ROCKVELIJ, OF WEST HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT.

PO RTAB LE STOV E.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 717,242, dated December 30, 1 902.

Application filed November 18, 1901. Serial No. 82,713. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, GASPAR W. METTLER, residing at Hartford, and FREDERICK C. RoeKwELL, residing at West Hartford, in

5 the county of Hartford, State of Connecticut, citizens of the United States, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Portable Stoves, of which the following is a specification. 5

1o This invention relates to a stove which is so designed that it may be carried from place to place and used where desired for heating an apartment without being connected with a chimney.

r 5 The object of the invention is to provide a light, cheap, and simple stove of this nature which is so constructed that the fuel will be consumed and the products of combustion-so treated that no noxious gases will be emitted zo to the apartment. a

The stove that is` illustrated by the accompanying drawings as embodying the invention is particularly designed for lburning coked peatthat is, peat which has been dried and z5 charred. In this stove the fuel is placed upon an open grate, above which is a hood that directs the products of combustion to a downwardly-extending flue which terminates above a receptacle containing liquid and which there communicates with an upwardlyextending flue, so that the products of combustion after passing upwardly from the fuel on the grate pass downwardly and over the liquid, which absorbs the dangerous and destructive gases, and then pass upward to the apartment.

Figure l of the drawings is a front View of the stove. Fig. 3 is a horizontal section, of the same stove.

The side walls l of the stove that is illustrated are formed of sheet metal, preferably iron, held bya frame 2, which may be formed The frame is sup- Fig. 2 is a central section, andV 9 back of the partition 7, which extends from the bottom of theA frame upwardly to about the level of the front lower edge of the hood.

A receptacle 10, adapted to contain liquid, is supported by the frame' beneath the iiue back of the grate. This receptacle is removable through the side of the stove.

A partition 1l extends from the top of the liquid-receptacle to the top of the stove-and 6o forms the back wall of the downward ue 9 from the hood to the liquid-receptacle and the front wall of thefiue 12, that extends up- A wardly from the liquid-receptacle to the top of the stove. A hood or 'cowl 13 is placed 65, above the top of the back iiue a littleV distance above the top edge of the walls of the stove.

In the liquid-receptacle it is preferred to placca solution of lime and water. Of course 7o any other suitable solution or pure water or any solid substance having the proper affinity for carbonio-acid gas might be placed in the liquid-receptacle.

After the coked-peat fuel has been placed upon the grate it is ignited in any convenient manner, either by shavings, charcoal, or other quickly-burning material. While the peat is being ignited, the stove may be set in a fireplace, put near a window, or removed 8o from the apartment until all of the smokeV and gases caused by the quickly-burning ig- `uiting material have passed off. After the Vwithout materially vitiating the atmosphere in the apartment.A After it has been used for a number of hours the liquid is replenished. As the fuel is consumed fresh fuel is added from time to time without requiring extraneous igniting material. There is no smoke from the stove when in use, the heat is soft and moist, and metallic articles in the apartroo ment in which it is burned are not tarnished,

nor is breathing affected.

ber containing the liquid-receptacle, and a ue extending upwardly at the back from the chamber containing the liquid-receptacle to the top of the stove, substantially as specified.

GASPAR W. METTLER. FREDERICK C. ROCKWELL.

Witnesses:

H. R. WILLIAMS, V. R. HoLCoMB. 

